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Google Scholar searches scholarly sources like academic publishers, professional societies, repositories, university websites, and more. Instead of their typical Google algorithms, Google Scholar uses rankings with more weight given to the full text, author, publication location, and citation in other scholarly literature.
Features 3 concise, self-paced modules to guide novice researchers through searching for and using appropriate sources in writing.
These self-paced modules are especially useful for those wishing to increase their research impact. Topics include funding and grant writing, technical writing skills, finding the right journal for your manuscript, and more.
A tool created to help researchers explore methods concepts, help design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings.
These databases contain thousands of research articles addressing cybercrime and cybersecurity.
Included resources for those studying law, law enforcement, terrorism, paralegal service, homeland security, forensic science, crime scene investigation, and policy development.
Security and Forensic Science and Technology
A collection of ebooks in emerging technology areas of security and forensic science, such as cyber warfare, computational intelligence, network security attacks, and cybersecurity.
Supports research on crime: causes, impacts, legal and social implications, litigation, and trends.
Full text of every article ever published by the Association for Computing Machinery, including journals, magazine, transactions, proceedings, newsletters, and other publications.
An open-access archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.
Provides full-text access to journals and books published by Cambridge University Press in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
Provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.
Provides access to leading business and technical publications in telecommunications, electronics, computer hardware, software, engineering, communications, and technology applications.
A resource for those who need access to comprehensive coverage of computer topics including database design, software development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, intranets and the internet.
Offers full text for nearly 300 publications that provide researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology.
Provides contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics.
Contains the full-text of all IEEE journals, transactions, letters, magazines, conference proceedings, and standards from 1988 to the present, with select content back to 1953.
Contains articles addressing all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology, usability, cataloging, circulation, business information, and related fields.
Information Science Technology Abstracts: Indexes journal articles from more than 450 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings and patents.
Databases across major subject areas: business, health and medical, language and literature, social sciences, education, science and technology, performing and visual arts, history, religion, and philosophy. Also includes thousands of full-text global newspapers.
Includes more than 1000 journals spanning the Humanities, Social Science, and Science, Technology, and Medicine.
Features full-text ebooks and journals in the biological sciences, biochemistry & genetics, molecular biology, chemistry, immunology, medicine, neuroscience, nursing, pharmacology, physics, psychology, social science, veterinary science, economics, and other disciplines.
Contains over 820 leading full text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community.
Natural Science Collection and Technology Collection which curate scholarly, trade, and industry journals; magazines; technical reports; conference proceedings; and government publications.
An abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Provides access to the world's leading citation databases, with coverage from nearly 9,300 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access Journals. Current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage dating back to 1965.